Sentence examples for regulations to block from inspiring English sources

In December 1992 environment ministers also agreed on regulations to block the importation to the EC of nonradioactive hazardous wastes.

A prominent historian, Sergei A. Krasilnikov of Novosibirsk State University in Siberia, said officials routinely cited personal privacy and other regulations to block access.

There they met Gavin Boby, a British lawyer known as the "mosque-buster", who boasts of having used planning regulations to block up to 17 mosque applications in the United Kingdom.

Republicans in many states are pursuing two avenues to tilt elections their way — changing the electoral college rules in the middle of the game and using laws and regulations to block likely Democratic voters from exercising their legitimate franchise.

This includes China's attempts to use regulations to block Western firms from selling their products to Chinese government agencies, new Chinese standards in telecommunications and other areas that would stop the country's firms from buying Western goods, and new rules that force Western companies to give up technological secrets in exchange for a piece of China's market.

Over the coming year, the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) will promote legislation with goals ranging from penalising individual homeowners and weakening state clean energy regulations, to blocking the Environmental Protection Agency, which is Barack Obama's main channel for climate action.

interest regulations designed to block public servants from making decisions in their own private interest.

Bitter relations between tenants and landlords, with an arms race between ever-more ingenious strategies to force tenants out -- what yesterday's article oddly described as "free-market horror stories" -- and constantly proliferating regulations designed to block those strategies?

When he had to, Stimpson even sacrificed his body late in regulation, dropping to block a possible goal.

In the absence of Esrp1 expression, Esrp2 is not sufficient to drive AS regulation or to block the activity of other splicing factors that promote the opposite pattern of splicing.

Businesses fought to stop OSHA from issuing the regulations, urging Congress to block them until another scientific study was done.